Nordau rejects art for art’s sake and argues that art has a social mission. From there he surveys a century of French painting, the school of 1830 and the triumph of the Impressionist revolution, with essays on Constantin Meunier, Gustave Moreau, Eugène Carrière, Puvis de Chavannes, Charles Cottet, Auguste Rodin and Bartholomé.
Opinionated criticism from the author of Degeneration, valuable as a contemporary view of fin-de-siècle art. Download the free EPUB.